Lilli's Propheticall History Of this yeares ACCIDENCE, 1642. OR, Newes from the Grammar-school, taken suddenly sick all over with Conceite, occasioned by the Doctors desperate opinion of her state, finding HOC REGNVM in the second Declension.

WHEREIN Is found a preposition for the Kings returning Londi­num versus, going imediately before the Concord.

The misery of the times beating into our brains the memory of our first Rules, all in one methode, for an everlasting impression of both, never to be forgotten.

The Author to the Reader.

What means these tears, sobs, sighs, the land all o're?
Why? Grammar's sick. Was't ever so before?
W.S.

⟨Nouemb 4⟩

London printed in the yeare. 1642.

Newes from the Grammar-school

WHat? Speechlesse Grammar? Boads this silence death?
Thou that wer't alwayes more In Speech then breath?
Mirth of the Land adieu: For Musicke of all Arts,
Hath greatest losse in thee, to lose Eight Parts,
Science lookes sable, very School-boyes whine,
Re- Forme must they, or they must still Decline.
Like Bonitas, such ruin'd Nounes there be,
Some by Themselves stand, some supported be.
A desp'rate crue now left, Numbers of Nounes,
Some gone to set up Cyphering Schooles in Townes,
Some to the Temple e're they had their Graces,
Like to prove Lawyers; for they have Six Cases.
If e're you saw at Sessions, or at Size,
A troop of clamorous Clients with lowd cries.
In Cases of all sorts, and Nominations,
Some Genitive, Dative, and some Accusations;
Some lowd for mercy cry, Magister O,
Others Oblated Coram Magistro.
This makes the Lawyer laugh, quem nos amamus,
A bad as Grammar laught at Ignoramus.
In time this needs must prove a Malum Omen,
If Articles bee not borrowed of Pronomen
In some new Spirituall Court for to recover
That which in Common law the Bar's cast over.
Once Hic, Haec, Hoc, in their Bum Courts would bear it,
Recovering all, now Vocativo caret.
But since 'twas Cado that made Case a Noune,
Wonder no more that these came tumbling downe,
Beneath whose rotten ruines (so Fame renders)
Of deadly sins no lesse then seven Genders.
Some Mals 2. Common with the Feminine,
Some stand as Newters, doubtfull, Epicene.
Hic mulier's false and damn'd, but out alas Sir,
If this world hold, there will another Hic Pass-er.
As for Declensions there were Five before,
If Bishops downe, there's one Declension more.
God grant the learned Mus-a new refining,
It's bad with them: for they are first declining.
Their Masters next, whose Vocative exclamation
Goes neere to touch the Kingdomes Declination.
But no help found in Regnum of Iacobus,
We must Decline ambobus ambabus ambobus.
There's hopes good Founders may repaire this losse,
If King and Councell do'nt each other crosse.
These Parens, manus (must pile) Lapides.
To bring about declining Meridies.
Or else what Grammar faith, you'l finde too true,
Decline once more, and Meri-dies adieu.
Then ends our substance: Next must be remembred
The Land's Noune-Adjective, or a thing dismembred.
O wofull chance! of Bonus, bona, benum,
Not so much left, as unus, una. unum.
Felix comes trembling (as delinquent) hee
Charg' dis which Articles no lesse then three.
These dayes are dolefull, and our learned Mistris
Hath no Declension left but mournsull Tristis.
Whe're this be for her pride, I will be sparing,
The world may iudge; for she is still comparing
These learn'd confusions heaped up together.
Good, had, great, little, lofty with the neather.
In one degree is found now worst and best,
Maximus the great, and Minimus the least.
But in revenge of Grammars sad deiection,
Pronomen's up in Chevalier complection,
With 15. Noune-like Lads all of one Nation.
Eight prime ones were indeed, six have relation
(To this sad Tragedy) then these none more,
Rehearse the thing that's spoken of before.
Others like Heralds, derive their pedigree
From Ego, Ille, is, & ipse hee.
But here's our fate in't, I, thou, and one more,
Must be declin'd in manner as before.
These Pronounes plunder, ransack, rend and teare it,
The Vocative never held, & Nominativo caret.
Numbers fel (down from Grammars latin cazements)
2. into one (the Muses great amazements)
The countrey shakes, as frighted Duckes ab aqua,
Fly gagling homewards quic quid, quoquo quaqua.
Heres to be noted, how these desperate fractions
Made Gentiles, Nations, fall to Sects and Factions.
These had prefer'd three persons to one Tense,
That brought our Church to this sad Accidence.
(Gods) Verbum part of speech (come from above)
Declines from doing, as Amo I doe love.
Some thinke these ruines rose from Cathedrals,
And such as have no Persons cal'd Impersonals,
Who meanes these shall be heard or understood,
Must give them Time, or take them in the Mood.
Gerunds Do Di, (or else like Bulls live some)
Who certaine voyces had, but they were Durn.
Supines a world, but Doceo & Lego.
Such active (Preachers) make their end in O.
These dolefull times present, Perfect-ion nusquam,
But what is growne imperfect, past, or plusquam.
What's in the Future was of truth foretold,
Love in these last dayes shall or will grow cold.
Now Mufes sonnes, some new invention have yee,
For to refine Amo, amas, amavi.
Not in command am I, but wishing mood
Potentia had sub-joyn'd loves brotherhood.
To love is infinite, yet some set about it;
But 'tis in Rus then, (for in Towne I doubt it)
Where 'twixt the active and the passive voyce,
We know sum newter stand, jeere and reioyce.
Professed Sufferers whose minds stand right,
Are knowne by Or (an Hebrew word for light.)
Divers revolt while Grammar groan'd aegrotans,
Away runs from her rule strong possum potens,
Malo more willing (fled then all the rest)
Ferendus borne to suffer, (suffered least.)
All voluntaries for their owne will stood,
Possum, volo, mal' have no Imperative Mood.
The stout Impersonall this ruine never righteth,
Who s'ere declines Delectat it delighteth.
At last a part of Speech (came in by fate)
With these sad fortunes to participate.
Kin both to Noune and Verb, for whose deare sake,
Made some Declensions, and in peeces brake,
Whose splinters were tooke up as ing & Ens,
The Emblemes of our English present Tense.
Old Authors (here lye buried) in Rus and Dus,
No use of'm now, unlesse of learn'd Amandus.
Pretences intricate, each mans thoughts transcending,
Like Adjectives have their threefold divers ending.
Ad-verbs (a crue came running, not Ad Nounes,
As people flock to Lecturers in Townes,
All of all sorts, some scoffing, some comparing,
Some flattring, asking, doubting, and some swearing.
Some chusing, parting, gathering, (almes diminished)
Some onely come to see a thing not finished.
Vnlesse the Muses doe forthwith send hither
A part of speech to ioyne these things together,
Such bad Conditionals must never looke to thrive,
Whose copulate Conjunctions prove so dis-junctive.
Ne're such confusion since the Babylonian,
All's out of order, Quando set for Quoniam.
In Grammar-schoole now you may heare a noyse
Of mirth and sorrow an imperfect voyce.
Some calling, jeering, cursing of their brothers,
Some doe keepe silence, as Au and such others.
Such Interjections (now the learned finde)
Hath caus'd this sudden passion of the minde,
If worse diseases may be, some exclaiming,
Srme scorning, shunning, dreading, some disdaining.
A Preposition Mountebank that mockt us,
Made a (Divine) compusure of Indoctus,
Whose help (though much admir'd in divers places)
Could serve (in all the world) but for two cases.
Some learned Doctor in the world, si quis est,
Now shew your skill; for now sub judice lis est.
Our penes great, the cure can none rehearse us.
Till our great King returne Londinum versus.
Grammar hath three, but then we will beseech
Charles for one Concord in the English speech.
When Englands hosts like heavens, moves on one axis
Then wee'l take further forth in our Syntaxis.
Isa. 1 st. the 4 th.
Ah sinfull Nation!
Must God fetch blood er'e there be reformation?

Pardon the stout, pag. 7. l. 3.

FINIS.

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